I'm making an "Easterner" comment to make a point. And I want to ask MyKeal if he has ever hunted up there in Michigan. I have hunted all my life and there have been bad shots, unfortunatly, and great shots. It just seems "throwing out the baby with the bath water" with "stats" sounds a little elitist. I'm sorry, but I've seen some with the newest and best toys blow a shot and gut shoot a deer, or worse. And let's be real here, it is a lot more humane to not shoot an animal at all, unless it is severly injured. But I like to hunt, I like to blackpowder hunt, and I admit I may unwillingly not drop a deer or whatever on the spot without a movement. But, it is more of what the spirit of what the hunt was supposed to be, getting in close without being seen, and making it more primitive. I'd dare say, it doesn't seem much like hunting using a super duper high powered rifle with a low "drag coefficient" bullet from that permanent heated blind overlooking a deer feeder and shooting a deer that's half tame...seems more like just killing to me..humane?
I also dove hunt, squirrel hunt, rabbit hunt, coyote hunt, etc...